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    <center>Scilab description</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : Jan 1998</div>
    <p>
      <b>pvm</b> -  communications with other applications using Parallel Virutal Machine</p>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    <p>
    is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous
    computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational
    resource.</p>
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    The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors,
    vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar
    workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks,
    such as ethernet, FDDI.</p>
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    Daemon programs (<tt>
        <b>pvmd3</b>
      </tt>) provide communication and process control
    between computers (see PVM manpage and manual for more details).</p>
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    Most important functions of the PVM communication library are included in Scilab.</p>
    <h3>
      <font color="blue">Warning</font>
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    PVM must be installed in your envriromnent before using it in Scilab. PVM scilab have been developped using the version 3.3.7 of the PVM library.</p>
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      <font color="blue">See Also</font>
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    <p>
      <a href="pvm_barrier.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_barrier</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_mytid.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_mytid</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_bcast.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_bcast</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_parent.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_parent</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_config.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_config</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_delhosts.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_delhosts</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_recv.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_recv</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_exit.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_exit</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_send.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_send</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_getinst.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_getinst</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_spawn.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_spawn</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_gettid.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_gettid</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_spawn_independent.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_spawn_independent</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_gsize.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_gsize</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_tasks.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_tasks</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_joingroup.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_joingroup</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_tidtohost.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_tidtohost</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_kill.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_kill</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_lvgroup.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_lvgroup</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_start.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_start</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="pvm_halt.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>pvm_halt</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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      <font color="blue">Author</font>
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    <p>PVM have been developped by A. L. Beguelin, J. J. Dongarra, G. A. Geist, W. C. Jiang, R. J. Manchek, B. K. Moore, V. S. Sunderam (see http://www.netlib.org/pvm3)  </p>
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